In the year 5041, the fishermen found in their net a living creature in the form of a lion, and they brought it to the emperor, and the emperor sent it to Rome to the pope [(Tzeda LeDerekh, chapter 2)]. In those days, in the village of Tzintuzali near Rome, there emerged from the sea a creature in the form of a lion, and the people caught it, and immediately it cried out in a loud voice [(Shomer HaDat, section 112, part 2)]: